JOSEPH FRANKLYN MCELROY & DONNA MCELROY



Performance has become a key term that in turns applys to experimental art, worker productivity, and functionality of technical, corporate, and military systems. Extrapolating from the purist corporatist bent, when we call Performance artistic, it references a cultural production that is meaningful and has defineable roles in relation to the subjects of experience. Within a corporate context, Performance as artistic must be expressive within the experimental art domain, but also address issues of productivity, repeatability, and functionality. In the greater cultural context, Performance as a work of art does not exist. What does exist are services (design, labor, practicies, management, etc) that we call art. We explore these services as discrete departments working towards a holistic goal. In Allan Kaprow's book of essays "The Blurring of Art and Life", he is interested in an intersection between art and life...mainly, does a line have to exist at all ... maybe it is possible to bend art space to the Life Standard or life space to the Art Standard. The Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist] explores this line, and extends the line into virtual space or Virtual Standard.



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Joseph Franklyn McElroy has been lauded as visionary in both technology and art. He started painting and programming almost on the same day when he was 12 years old in 1974, and has continued his practice to this day. He has studied art in classical, modern, and post-modern environments and brings many aspects and approaches to his services. He has founded several companies that continue to operate to this day.

Donna McElroy, started out an artist's model, and learning along the way, became an artist herself. She has worked extensively with Joseph on all their technical, artistic, and business endeavors. They have had many performances and exhibitions that show case their work. They currently have a company called Electric Hands, Inc that serves not only as a business, but also as a performance. They are called Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ists].



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